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Last update: July 15, 2015
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Recent researches into his early life discredit most of the stories that have been told respecting his profligacy and his contempt for the claims of the church; and it is admitted that, while rejecting her authority in the sphere of dogma and intellect, he observed the proprieties of life (gambling being then scarcely looked on as a vice) and respected the outward observances of religion. [Please select]
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Certain little proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by Cosette. [Please select]
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What a haven that poky and silent place was; what a blessing the conventions were, and the proprieties. [Please select]
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"Well, my fine madam, we seem to have pitched the proprieties overboard quite completely this time." [Please select]
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She has to have some one to do the proprieties, you know. [Please select]
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Leonore knelt down on the ground beside him, regardless of the proprieties or the damp. [Please select]
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It is evident that even where natural necessities are not antagonistic to moral proprieties, they are at any rate indifferent to them. [Please select]
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Julius' permanent residence here ranks among the fine-fanciful disregardings of accepted proprieties with which we have indulged ourselves. [Please select]
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Ashley had a theory that manner in church is the supreme test of the proprieties. [Please select]
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It was his duty, they urged, to have an immediate interview with this free-spoken Anna and instruct her in the proprieties. [Please select]
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She was a stiff, if indiscreet, old lady, and it certainly did not fall within her view of the proprieties that young people should take their elders to task in furious letters. [Please select]
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